From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 21 7:51:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E3637B405 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f8LEo9d18041; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:50:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:50:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200109211450.f8LEo9d18041@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: djohnson@acuson.com, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get the developer's attention X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-newbies In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >"Potts, Ross" wrote: >> >> Contact the developer? > >Which developer? All of them? How can one determine who is working on a >bug? Nothing is listed in the bug report. If there is nothing in the bug report database, it may indeed mean that nobody is working on it. In this case, you may want to ask on -hackers, or -developers if someone could take a look at it. There is often a disconnect between the people who are knowledgeable about the code in question, and the bug report database. At times, the people who know what the code does and what the answer is aren't aware of the PR report, so bringing it up again is a way to get their attention. In fact, PR 28418 (which I assume you're talking about) contains a very nice summary of the problem, down to identifying exactly what part of the code is failing (although not why). -- Jonathan P.S.: Just by looking at the this particular PR, my guess is that either the code has a bug, or the board's BIOS is lying about what it supports, causing a crash. Try turning off MTRR support in your BIOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message